Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1887-01-28
THE NATION.

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A high Canadian official says II the Unit
cd States does retaliate in the fishing
trouble that all English ports will be closed
against Us. This same high official calls
Senator Edmunds' bill but a dynamite
measure, and says the United States must
understand that Canada knows her rights
and will defend them.
DIR. George Patterson. two years ago tho
leading physician of Beloit, Wis, has been
sentenced TO Jail for 30 days as a common
vagrant. His downfall is the result OF a
too frequent use of cocaine.
Rumored that Allan w Thurman, son Of
ex-senator Thurman, will be appointed
one of the commissioners under the inter
state commerce bill
Small pox has taken strong hold upon
the tenement districts of New York, and
sanitary officers fear it will become cpl
demic.
The national board OF trade will meet in
Washington next year 1t will ask con
gress to prohibit state taxation of drum
mers.
Local labor agitators in Chicago have
organized another eight hour movement,
to be inaugurated next May.
The lower house of the Texas legislature
has passed "A bill making it unlawful for
any judicial, executive, administrative or
legislative officer in this state or OF any
district or county in the state, except
sheriffs, constables or other police officers
to accept free passes or tickets or any de-
vice, instrument, article or substance that
in lian
thereof from any railway company, its
agents or employees, or TO use, carry or
display the same upon any railway in the
state. The penalty is fine not exceeding
$1,000
Nearly s6O000o0 worth Of land, at the
government price of 81 p per acre, was
sold iii Alabama last week.
A call will soon be issued for 3 per cent.
bonds 10 the amount of Sl3 $4,000. There
are exactly 100000 uncalled per cent
bonds outstanding
Charles Smith, prominent knight of
labor and president OF the cooperative
cigar company OF Delaware, O., is under
arrest, charged with being an escaped con
Wet. His aliases are Andrew Ehman and
Michael Redman
The Pacific express was boarded by a
gang of robbers about six miles from Fort
Worth, Texas, recently, and between So
coo and SO eco secured.
The western passenger train for St
Louis on the Louisville a Nashville rail
road was wrecfed half mile east
of Hawthorne H., about thirty miles from
Evansville Ind. 10y explosion of the loco
H,..,,
were killed outright
Prof Edward L. Youmans, editor OF
Popular Science NoH'hly, and distinguish
ed writer and lecturer, died in New York
on the 18th inst
Bishop Cain Of the African NJ. f. church.
died in Washington on the 18th inst he
was prominent during the reconstruction
times in South Carolina ana was mem
Der Of the forty-third congress.
William and Cornelius Vanderbilt each
gave 81, 600 to the Logan fund
Ex-Governor Curtin will retire from
congress at the close OF this session, and
will devote himself TO preparing data for
history Of Pennsylvania part in the
war.
Over $50 900 are invested in cattle in
Colorado.
Colvin Pratt, who was extradited from
Japan and convicted Of forging checks on
the Pacific bank of San Francisco, has
been sentenced to fourteen years in state
prison
The leading sportsmen Of Ohio have
formed state association for the protec-
ton of game and fish Gen. w b. Shat
tuck OF Cincinnati, is president and DR..
VIM. Sheppard of Columbus secretary.
The superior court OF Ohio has declared
the Dow liquor law constitutional, and
also that it applies TO wholesale as well as
retail dealers.
The secretary of the treasury has trans
mitted 10 congress estimates for defcien'
cies in the appropriations for the mainte
nance of the government for the fiscal year
1887 and prior years aggregating s2,27e,
995.
The issue Of standard silver dollars from
the mint during the week ended January
Is amounted to 1924, 1919, corresponding
week in lSS6 sl9249S The shipments oil
fractional silver coin from January to
January 10 amounted 70 sll3,37s.
An immense scheme is now on foot Ia
build a canal from about five miles above
Kimball Neb., starting it out at Lodge
Pole creek and running the water into
Kimball for fire protection and rapid tree
growing purposes
A girls cooperative clothing manufac
tory has been started in Chicago II will
manufacture mems clothing.
John Matthews of Bedding was found
dead in bed the other morning. He had
recently come from England with the de
sign Of spending the remnant Of his days
with Mrs. Griffith, his only daughter
The state central committee Of colored
people held meeting in Jackson on the
18th inst The object OF the organization
Is to make the coored people a unit re-
gardi ng their interest in the state and "a
collect statistics as TO the advancement,
and progress OF their race.
Miss Ida Nav Lee. dress maker OF
Brighton, was found dead in her room the
other morning. The body was stiff and